When the owners of the soon-to-open Prost Brewing bought a 72.25-barrel brewhouse in Germany late last year, craft beer-industry watchers wondered what they’d do with that much capacity. After all, most recent start-up breweries have opened with just a fraction of that kind of beer-making brawn, anywhere from one to…
Tim Tebow may have said yesterday that he’s changed his dog’s name from Bronco to Bronx now that he is a New York Jet. But it’s not as if the Broncos hadn’t dissed Tebow first. According to the team’s web site, the Broncos have reassigned Tebow’s famous number — the…
Update: Make that eleven and counting. Read this post throughout to find other updates on each brewery. The gang’s all beer in Colorado these days, with at least ten — count ’em, ten — brewpubs slated to start pouring before the end of summer. Two opened north of town in…
The success of America’s craft brewers over the past five years — and the phenomenal growth of the industry — prompts this question: Do we even need American Craft Beer Week anymore? The Boulder-based Brewers Association created the celebration seven years ago as a way to recognize independent breweries and…
Two of Colorado’s biggest craft brewers registered some displeasure late last month over the efforts of one of their colleagues, Breckenridge Brewery, to get a bill passed that would have allowed it to significantly expand its business model in the state. The rift shows how competitive the craft beer market…
In the annual overflow of beer weeks, Colorado Beer Week kicks off today, just two days before American Craft Beer Week begins its run. The former is a series of beery events hosted around town by a private events company. The second is a national orgy of beer activities created…
Update: Breckenridge Brewery released this statement this afternoon as a result of confusion over their future plans: “There have been some questions today about Breckenridge Brewery’s plans after Colorado House Bill 1347 failed to progress. (See article in Denver Business Journal.) Breckenridge Brewery is proud of its Colorado heritage and…
Big Choice Brewing opens in Broomfield today, pouring a little beer culture into a craft beer gap along the Highway 36 corridor. The 2,500-square-foot brewery and tap room will have four beers to start with and eight within a few weeks…
The entire craft-brewing world will be in San Diego this week for the annual Craft Brewers Conference, which allows brewers from across the country to share ideas, knowledge and plenty of beer. Plus, they get to spend time in America’s Finest City. More than 2,600 people are expected to be…
Is it a can? Is it a bottle? Does it even matter? Today Oskar Blues unveiled its newest packaging experiment: a resealable, sixteen-ounce aluminum bottle made by Ball Corporation in Golden. The container will be used for Chaka, an extremely limited-release, Belgian-style pale ale that Oskar Blues created earlier this…
Denver attorney Norm Brownstein — of Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber and Schreck — is often referred to a political power broker. But it’s his sons who’ve been doing the brokering of late, and unfortunately “power” isn’t one of the commodities they’ve been trading. On Thursday, Chad Brownstein was forced to apologize…
Earlier this week, a creative art bomber added a bit of bathroom humor to the iconic Big Blue Bear sculpture that stands outside the Colorado Convention Center. And like most unsanctioned art — remember the ball and chain? — it was quickly removed. But not forgotten. “We still have it,…
As part of the Wazee Supper Club’s big remodel, which begins tomorrow and continues for three weeks, the 38-year-old pizza-and-beer joint will be bringing in all new furniture. Which means they have to get rid of the old stuff…
The Wazee Supper Club has been serving cold beer and hot Colorado-style pizza since it was founded 38 years ago by the Karagas brothers, Jim and Angelo, who’d opened My Brother’s Bar a few years earlier at 2376 15th Street. From the start, the Wazee was lower downtown’s go-to neighborhood…
When Denver Beer Co opened last August, owners Charlie Berger and Patrick Crawford had an unusual business plan: They wouldn’t brew the same beer twice. Since then, the two have mostly stuck to that — with a few notable exceptions — and on Tuesday, they brewed their hundredth batch of…
President Obama may have made the biggest splash during his two-day trip to Colorado at The Sink in Boulder, but Secret Service staffers knew where to go in Cherry Creek North for a late-night snack during the darker hours — no, not that kind of snack…
Renegade Brewing will put the pedal to the metal in May as it rolls out plans to package one of its beers in sixteen-ounce aluminum cans and add two new stainless steel tanks. The ten-month-old brewery will accomplish both tasks with the help of two small Colorado companies that have…
Does a bear shit in the woods? How about in the city — in front of the Colorado Convention Center? The answer, it appears, is “yes.”Someone snapped the above picture of an awesome “art attack” that took place sometime on Sunday night or Monday morning underneath the Big Blue Bear…
The Colorado Brewers Guild provided proof today of what most Colorado residents have known for a while: beer is good for us, economically at least. On Tuesday, the Guild, which represents craft breweries in the state legislature, said Colorado’s 139 licensed craft breweries pump $446 million a year into the…
Residents who live around City Park got a bit of a surprise — and a little mystery — on Sunday when five massive military helicopters landed inside the park around 10:30 a.m. near Duck Lake. The copters, which all appeared to be Marine vehicles, hung out for a bit before…
Pete and David. Father and son. Just two guys heading out on a week-long RV trip across the country. Of course, most father-and-son adventures don’t involve a personal driver, like this one does. But then, most fathers and sons aren’t Pete Coors and David Coors. And, frankly, having a designated…
Copper Kettle Brewing was a key piece of Denver’s neighborhood brewery revolution in 2011, opening in a business park off of Parker Road and quickly garnering a following of regulars. Over the course of just one year, the brewery has released more than two dozen beers, increased its tasting room,…
